'Hologram' lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London - Story and images by ISPR 'Hologram' lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London University classes are set to be given a futuristic spin by letting lecturers appear as hologram-like apparitions beamed in from afar. Imperial College London will show off the technology at a special event later on Thursday before deploying it more widely. It believes it will be the first academic body to do so regularly. A similar e...

Atlassian sells Jitsi, an open-source videoconferencing tool it acquired in 2015, to 8×8 - Story and images by TechCrunch After announcing earlier this year that it planned to shut down HipChat and Stride and sell the IP of both to Slack, today enterprise software company Atlassian made another move related to its retreat from enterprise chat. It is selling Jitsi, a popular open-source chat and videoconferencing tool, to 8X8, a provider of cloud-based business phone and internal communicati...

Johnson & Johnson to open JLabs virtual networking pod in Philadelphia - Story and images by FierceBiotech Johnson & Johnson is broadening access to its startup incubator program with a new remote networking hub, affectionately called the JPod, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. Opening Nov. 1 at the university's Pennovation Center in Philadelphia, it will allow for video conferencing between JLabs entrepreneurs and their J&J gurus across the company's global network, including devel...

Video conferencing company Zoom readies IPO, say sources: Reuters - Story and images by PE Hub Network Zoom Video Communications Inc, a conferencing company started by an early engineer at collaboration software maker Webex, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Zoom is aiming to be valued in the IPO at several billion dollars more than the $1 billion valuation it achieved in its most recent funding round in 2017, when it received...

Spatial Bursts Out Of Stealth With Cash And XR Telepresence - Story and images by Forbes After two years in stealth, Spatial is launching its cross-platform XR collaboration App that enables holographic telepresence through augmented reality, turning any room into a 3D workspace. With Spatial, users connect remotely and express ideas seamlessly using lifelike avatars, unlocking a new level of computing that is not confined by space, no matter what device they are using. I have been saying f...

Not Your Grandfather's Video Conferencing Industry Anymore - Story and images by No Jitter Multiple factors have converged to drive adoption while also shifting the revenue opportunity. Video collaboration is booming in the enterprise -- at long last. Fully appreciating what that means takes understanding where we've come from and what the market looks like presently. Background What was the industry like from 1985-2008? Because of the complexity behind real-time audio and video compression...

T1V Upgrades ThinkHub to Support Multiple Displays Using XCanvas Among Other Product Improvements - Story and images by T1V T1V announces the ThinkHub 4.4 software release, which focuses on expanding its core ThinkHub feature offering, while also introducing a new set of add-on modules that can be used to further tailor and customize standard ThinkHub to meet more specific needs in the visual collaboration space. Driven by customer demand, ThinkHub xCanvas extends the ThinkHub experience be...

Reimagining the whiteboard workflow - Story and images by AV Magazine The way people use whiteboards might be set to change with the release of a collaborative solution claiming to improve the way local and remote teams work. Kaptivo's Adrian Cable tells Zoe Mutter how the product captures, enhances and shares content. Video conferencing systems are great for sharing audio and video content, but a lot of productivity occurs on traditional whiteboards which cannot be effectively shared with ...

Researchers Reveal Vulnerabilities of Telepresence Robot - Story and images by RBR Testing shows methods that hackers can grab private data from the VGo robots. New research from Zingbox has detailed vulnerabilities in telepresence robots that hackers could use to access sensitive data, including chat conversations, images, and live video streams. Initially discussed at the RSA security conference in April 2018, Zingbox said its security researchers worked with manufacturers to discover fiv...

NEC Launches InfinityBoard Collaboration Solution - Story and images by AV Network The What: NEC Display Solutions of America has launched InfinityBoard, a high-end meeting room tool with Mosaic Hub collaboration software, flexibility via multi-platform support, and ease of purchase for enterprise customers. The What Else: The InfinityBoard collaboration solution is designed for corporate and higher education customers and includes an NEC Display UHD display with in-glass touch, with screen...